Repeating History Quotes

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Risk, Myopic, Carpet

  "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Ike Anya, www.africanwriter.com. October 15, 2005.

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• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

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• The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  Past, History, Doe

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• Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

  Ronald Wright

  Inspirational, History Repeats Itself, Historian

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.107, Canongate Books

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• History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

  Karl Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Philosophy

  "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon".

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• History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

  Mike Colter

  Memories, History Repeats Itself, Short Memory

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

  Erik Qualman

  Firsts, History Repeats Itself, First Time

  Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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• Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

  Doe, History Repeats Itself, Mark

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• Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, History, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  Philip Guedalla

  Funny, Education, Humor

  Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"

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• History repeats itself.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Wisdom, History

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

  Max Beerbohm

  History, Doe, Historian

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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• Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Spiritual, Moon, Technology

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• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

  Joseph Conrad

  Song, Art, History

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1238, e-artnow

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• History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

  Will Durant

  Human Nature, History Repeats Itself, Humans

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Suicide, Teenager

  "Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

  Erin Gruwell

  Silence, History Repeats Itself, Repeats

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• If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

  Terry Venables

  Funny, Soccer, Stupid

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• Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

  Julian Barnes

  Tragedy, Farce, Doe

  Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.241, Random House

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